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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Tatsy genuinely has an amazing story. This is actually grateful

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Speaker 2: about despite all the pain we found out about this

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Speaker 2: morning about kidney stones, you wouldn't be here today if

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Speaker 2: it wasn't for a kidney stone. Partsy.

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Speaker 3: No kidney stone saved my life. So what was it?

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Speaker 3: Six seven years ago? I had what I thought was

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Speaker 3: a kidney infection and I was here at work and

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Speaker 3: I just read my eight o'clock bulletin. Went to the

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Speaker 3: I think I've got an infection. He said, come in.

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Speaker 3: He said, oh, yeah, you've got a kidney infection. I'll

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Speaker 3: put you on some antibiotics. Anyway, it didn't get better,

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Speaker 3: There was a few other signs and he said, look,

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Speaker 3: let's just do a scan. I think you've got a

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Speaker 3: kidney stone. And I said to him, my brother had

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Speaker 3: had My oldest brother had had kidney cancer twelve months before,

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Speaker 3: and it can run among siblings. But there was no

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Speaker 3: reason for alarm. So I said to our GP We've

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Speaker 3: got a wonderful family. GP in the West. I said, oh,

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Speaker 3: I probably should mention that my brother had kidney cancer

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Speaker 3: a year ago. And he said, oh, I'm sure. I'm

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Speaker 3: sure it's nothing that you know that bad. If there's

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Speaker 3: anything there on the scam, we'll see it. We'll lo

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Speaker 3: and behold. I had the scan, and yes, I had

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Speaker 3: a kidney stone. I had about a seven mil kidney

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Speaker 3: stone in my left kidney. But I also had a

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Speaker 3: tumor right in the middle of it. So it was

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Speaker 3: a bit of a shock. But you know, when you

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Speaker 3: hear the sea word, it's like it's terror.

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Speaker 2: All of us. Fair. That's the horrible thing about cancer.

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Speaker 2: We all know what it can do, and so yeah,

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Speaker 2: we all dread that and a shadow or an X

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Speaker 3: And this is a thing with kidney cancer. It's good

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Speaker 3: It often doesn't have symptoms until it's in its very

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Speaker 2: So you really were lucky. If you on't got the

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Speaker 3: You know what, I could be walking around today. Well,

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Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't have been walking around today, but I

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Speaker 3: definitely would have been walking around absolutely unbeknownst that I

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Speaker 3: had the tumor. So I consider myself. You know, when

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Speaker 3: I say I'm the luckiest woman in the world, I

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Speaker 3: thank for being here. And yeah, but how's that thinking

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Speaker 3: out with another diagnosis as well? And you know what

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Speaker 3: I felt. It's really weird to describe because I've felt this.

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Speaker 3: I know this sounds strange, but when our GP told us,

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Speaker 3: I felt this weird sense of elation, which I know

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Speaker 3: that sounds weird because we didn't know how diet you know,

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Speaker 3: even though I had some hurdle to sort of leap through.

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Speaker 3: But a lot of the kidney cancers are found through

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Speaker 2: Right, it's amazing story. Patsy. Right, you've told us we've

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Speaker 2: spoken before about your kidney canser. I didn't know it

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Speaker 2: that is amazing. I'd love to know. Always think stories

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Speaker 2: what you're grateful for sometimes in life, like just twenty

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Speaker 2: who knows if there's anyone else. You do hear these

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Speaker 2: amazing stories where people say, like Patsy did, I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: good surmount to those, a little bit of life saving

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Speaker 2: that somehow, maybe invisible how or angel who knows what

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Speaker 2: If you've got one like Patsy, where you're grateful for

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Speaker 2: I'd love to hear them.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the question o' carl's show podcast Judy, Good.

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Speaker 4: Morning, Good morning, How are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm good Judy. So I'd love to hear your story.

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Speaker 2: What are you grateful for? What happened? What saved your life?

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Speaker 5: Okay, So thirty years ago, I was on a houseboat

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Speaker 5: in Lake Yilden. My girlfriend and I had decided to

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Speaker 5: in the lake from the houseboat. Next thing you know,

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Speaker 5: were like in the middle of Lake Eildon, struggling, and

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Speaker 5: we started to swim towards his houseboat, but every time

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Speaker 5: course the speedboat had gone into Petrol. So my girlfriend

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Speaker 5: was a strong swimmer and I wasn't. And I kept going,

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Speaker 5: kept going, and then I could feel myself going and

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Speaker 5: I was like, now I just leave me. You keep going,

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Speaker 5: and she's like, no, I'm not leaving you. And I

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Speaker 5: started to push, you know when they say take what.

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Speaker 5: I started to drag her down, and then she pushed

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Speaker 5: me off. It was real like a drowning experience. And

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Speaker 5: a guy they yelled, and he yelled out to the house,

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Speaker 5: but Julie's going to drown like she's struggling. And a

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Speaker 5: guy called, and I will say his name, Gilbert Wangernen

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Speaker 5: from a chuca. He jumped into the into the lake

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Speaker 5: and swam towards me and brought me back. And to

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Speaker 5: this day Gilbert and I are friends. And I will yeah,

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Speaker 5: I owe in my life and days ago. Yes, what

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Speaker 5: a story, I know, tell me about it.

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Speaker 2: God, you've had us all me and literally jaws on

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Speaker 2: the floor. What a story. I mean, you were right

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Speaker 5: Life one hundred percent. And I'll tell you the moral was,

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Speaker 5: I never learned how to swim. I'm fifty four. I

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Speaker 2: There of it will still be in you weren't it, Julie. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Oh, if anyone ever asks me, you know, have you

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Speaker 2: That's so unbelievable. What an amazing story. Incredible and you're like,

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Speaker 2: even if you're a strong swimmer, it's a long way

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and thank God for Gilbert, That's all I can say.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nbelievable. It makes me want to learn how to

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Speaker 2: become a strongest streamers. Well, just in case you have

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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, exactly.

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Speaker 2: Now, you are right, Julie, because obviously when you open

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm fine, Thank you so much, thank.

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Speaker 2: You, thank you. I can't believe the first story we

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Speaker 2: go to is this one. It's unbelievable. Julie. I hope

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Speaker 2: you are okay. Thank you very much for giving us

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Speaker 2: a calling sharing it. Do you know what, I bet

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Speaker 2: there be people listening to this actually think, you know what,

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Speaker 2: I know, I could be a better swimmer. It's never

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Speaker 5: Definitely not definitely all right, Julia.

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Speaker 2: I hope you're okay. Thank you very much for giving us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much to Julie for sharing such a

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Speaker 2: moment in her life. Jack and I would just still

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Speaker 2: pulling it apart. Actually during that song, it's unbelievable her

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Speaker 2: the friend as you have to say to someone, no,

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Speaker 2: you go on? Yeah, and what do you tell you?

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Speaker 2: I have to say those words.

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Speaker 6: And being a friend and somebody who can't swim is

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Speaker 6: is grabbing onto you to save their own life, and

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Speaker 6: you're going to drown us both if you don't let go.

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Speaker 6: It's a really difficult situation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Julie, thank you very much to give us a

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Speaker 2: these stories like Patsy did. This was seven o'clock. I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for Good morning, Elizabeth.

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Speaker 4: Hi, good morning Christian. How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm good Elizabeth. So what is your story like Julie's,

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Speaker 2: like Patsy's, all these incredible stories this morning. What's yours? Mate?

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Speaker 4: Well, I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for

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Speaker 4: an earache. They found three brain aneurysms from an earache

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Speaker 4: to an audiologist. The audiologist said, your ears are clear.

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Speaker 4: So the GP said, I'll send you off for an MRI.

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Speaker 4: And when they did the MRI, they found one aneurysm.

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Speaker 2: That is incredible. What a thorough gp you've got as well,

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Speaker 2: because most of them they're so busy and overstressed and overworked.

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Speaker 2: probably clear itself up yourself. Well, that amazing they made

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Speaker 2: and got you checked out probably where you say surgery, right,

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Speaker 4: They they remove a section of the skull and they

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Speaker 4: clip it and then they use titan like they use

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Speaker 2: Amazing. And are you you're not conscious during this?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: No, stupid, that was a stupid You don't take pandole.

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Speaker 6: Deal deals on the TV.

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Speaker 2: For your the titanium screws go in Elizabeth.

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Speaker 4: So funny thing is the only thing that you get

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Speaker 4: afterwards is panadole. You're on panadoles for the pain to

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Speaker 4: the headaches and things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, so you've got titanium in your head.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got I've got titanium bling in my brain.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Way, that's the greatest rap song never recorded. So

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Speaker 2: when you go through airport scanners, do you have to

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Speaker 2: let them know I've got a titanium ahead.

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Speaker 4: No, they don't, they don't affect the scanners.

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Speaker 2: Wait, that is amazing. I love that. That's Elizabeth, another

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Speaker 2: fantastic story.

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Speaker 4: Do you know what though? With the earache? They sent

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Speaker 4: me off to a special specialist as Monash, and he

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Speaker 4: had looked and he said, there's a big lump of

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Speaker 4: wax in there. And he got out the wax and

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Speaker 4: he was fine.

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Speaker 2: He's put at a taste for Elizabeth. All right, Elizabeth,

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Speaker 2: thank you very much for sharing your amazing story with us.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much.

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